“We’d all be better off if more people got out of their cars and onto the trains and buses. The way to do that isn’t to make people miserable in their cars, it’s to make mass transit more efficient and reliable. The CTA finally seems to get that.”

You know how you make transit more efficient and reliable? Give it an appropriate amount of space to operate efficiently and reliably. Potentially inconveniencing drivings isn’t the goal of BRT, it’s a side effect (and one that may not even come to pass). The alternative is inconveniencing transit riders to allow more space for private vehicles. You would figure that a Tribune editorial praising the CTA for efficiently using its limited resources (money) would also recognize that street space is also a limited resource and BRT is a more efficient use of that space. But i guess only transit agencies are required to be efficient whereas our over-dependence on private autos can continue to be wasteful.